Betsy Peabody Sent - City of Bainbridge Island

From: Jim Llewellyn
Sent: Wed 10/13/2010 10:53 AM
To: Hilary Franz; Kirsten Hytopoulos; Debbi Lester
Cc: Larry Witty
Subject: Whatever hauls your boat !
*THE HOLE IN THE WATER*
Dear compassionate Council friends-
As you already know I have way too many boats.
Two of them must get hauled out every now & then. One is as old as I am
(1947 Blanchard Senior Knockabout) so naturally it needs loving care.
I really don’t mind paying the Port of Port Townsend a few hundred to pop
them onto dry land and Lord knows there are some great eateries and
drinkeries to drop money into when I’m up there getting itchy, smelly and
generally miserable for the love of yachting. Naturally West Marine
extracts from my back pocket a pretty penny as well.
They say that a boat is “A hole in the water into which one pours money.”
But, to tell you the truth, I got good training as a 3 year member of the BI
Chamber of Commerce and get these guilty feelings when I think that I could
be great if there was local “water” into which I could pour my money as I
dote on my boats. The boat yard, the Chandelry, and the Pub would all
benefit from haulouts I could do here.
I probably wouldn’t miss the hour commute each way, either.
So, I heartily support keeping money in the local watering hole (I can’t
believe I just made that shameless analogy).
Let’s have a boatyard/harulout HERE.
Jim Llewellyn
Recovering Councilman